Traditional Chinese Iron Industry and Its Modern Fate
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Blast Furnaces
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Charcoal Blast Furnaces
Chinese iron production transformation
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economic history China
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industrial modernisation
Iron Industry
Large Blast Furnaces
Lower Yangzi Valley
Make Cast Iron
Make Wrought Iron
metallurgy development
Modern Blast Furnace
Pig Iron
Production Possibilities Curve
Puddling Furnace
Red Basin
resource geography
Rewi Alley
Roundabout
Salt Controller
Semi-finished Iron
Southern Henan
Speciality Trade
technological adaptation
Tonnes
Traditional Iron Industries
traditional manufacturing methods
Von Richthofen
Wrought Iron
Product details
- ISBN 9780700709519
- Weight: 230g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 17 Jun 1997
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book explores the economic history of the traditional Chinese iron industry in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with particular emphasis on the interactions among technological, economic and geographic factors. The traditional technology of iron production is described together with the ways in which it changed and developed in response to upheavals wrought by foreign competition, war and revolution and by the growth in China of a modern iron industry.
Many of the book's findings are counter-intuitive, and will provide food for thought in the study of Third World industrial development. The author has written widely on the history of science and technology in China, and is currently engaged in writing the volume on ferrous metallurgy for Joseph Needham's Science and Civilisation in China.
Donald B. Wagner has written widely on the history of science and technology in China, and is currently engaged in writing the volume on ferrous metallurgy for Joseph Needham’s Science and Civilisation in China.,
The Foreword is by Peter Nolan of Jesus College, Cambridge.
